Psychiatry Match Rates Increase After Exposure to a Medical Student Mentorship Program: A Multisite Retrospective Cohort Analysis

Russell Himmelstein; Sarah Guth; Michael Enenbach; Mary Margaret Gleason; Hanna Stevens; Anne Glowinski; Alex Kolevzon; Andrés Martin

doi:10.1007/s40596-020-01210-3

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Psychiatry Match Rates Increase After Exposure to a Medical Student Mentorship Program: A Multisite Retrospective Cohort Analysis

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Psychiatry Match Rates Increase After Exposure to a Medical Student Mentorship Program: A Multisite Retrospective Cohort Analysis

Russell Himmelstein, Sarah Guth, Michael Enenbach, Mary Margaret Gleason, Hanna Stevens, Anne Glowinski, Alex Kolevzon and Andrés Martin

Academic psychiatry, Vol.46(1), pp.40-44

02/25/2020

DOI: 10.1007/s40596-020-01210-3

PMCID: PMC7483187

PMID: 32100255

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Since 2002, the Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation (KTGF) has supported a network of medical student mentorship programs (MSMPs) across the USA with the explicit aim of enhancing interest in, and eventual recruitment into the field of child and adolescent psychiatry (CAP). The authors conducted a multisite, retrospective cohort analysis to examine the impact of the program on career selection, as reflected by graduation match rates into psychiatry or pediatrics. The authors collected graduating match information (2008-2019) from fourteen participating medical schools (Exposed) and thirteen non-participating schools (Control). Control schools were selected based on region, comparable student body and faculty size, national standing, and rank in NIH funding. Match rates into psychiatry and pediatrics were compared between Exposed and Control groups. Exposed schools had significantly higher match rates into psychiatry as compared to unexposed schools (6.1% and 4.8%, respectively; OR [95%CI] = 1.29 [1.18, 1.40]; X = 32.036, p < 0.001). In contrast, during the same time period, exposed schools had significantly lower match rates into pediatrics than unexposed ones (11.6 and 10.5%, respectively; OR [95%CI] = 0.89 (0.83, 0.95); X = 12.127, p < 0.001). These findings persisted even after adjustment for secular trends in match rates. Seventeen years after its inception, the KTGF medical student mentorship program network has had a positive impact on match rates into general psychiatry. Future studies will address whether these results translate to trainees' eventual selection of careers in CAP.

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Title: Subtitle: Psychiatry Match Rates Increase After Exposure to a Medical Student Mentorship Program: A Multisite Retrospective Cohort Analysis
Creators: Russell Himmelstein - Robert Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
Sarah Guth - Robert Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
Michael Enenbach - University of California Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Mary Margaret Gleason - Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA
Hanna Stevens - University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Anne Glowinski - Washington University in Saint Louis, Saint Louis, MO, USA
Alex Kolevzon - Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
Andrés Martin - Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA. andres.martin@yale.edu
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Academic psychiatry, Vol.46(1), pp.40-44
DOI: 10.1007/s40596-020-01210-3
PMID: 32100255
PMCID: PMC7483187
NLM abbreviation: Acad Psychiatry
ISSN: 1042-9670
eISSN: 1545-7230
Publisher: United States
Grant note: Riva Ariella Ritvo Endowment / Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine R25 MH077823 / NIMH NIH HHS
Language: English
Date published: 02/25/2020
Academic Unit: Psychiatry; Stead Family Department of Pediatrics; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
Record Identifier: 9984070128302771

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